EchoPixel has received FDA clearance of its True3D Viewer, a technology that creates holography displays—or True 3D­—from CT and MRI data.

XIFIN, the revenue-cycle management vendor based in San Diego, has begun working with teleradiology titan vRad to market a one-stop mashup of all diagnostic reports from radiology, pathology and clinical labs.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved Boston Scientific’s Watchman, a device designed to reduce strokes in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation.

When it comes to imaging the heart to detect coronary disease and other disorders of the ticker, cardiac PET/CT makes SPECT look silly just for trying. And that’s just on the clinical front. It’s got its economic attributes too.    

When is the right time to add a vendor-neutral archive (VNA)? For DCH Health System, a Tuscaloosa-based hospital enterprise serving West Alabama, the decision coincided with an ambitious expansion of the cardiology department of its flagship hospital, 600-bed DCH Regional Medical Center.

Through both organic growth and merger-and-acquisition activity, the New Brunswick, NJ-based mega-practice University Radiology has increased in size from 61 to 96 radiologists in just six years. The task of technologically knitting all practice and service sites together into one integrated whole has fallen to practice CIO Alberto Goldszal, PhD.

Outshined by the introduction of the Apple Watch, Apple’s ResearchKit, a new iOS software framework was also introduced at the Apple event this week, allowing physicians and scientists collect and monitor clinical data from iPhone users who volunteer to join medical research studies.

The use of 3-D printing could be used to give physicians the ability to construct interventional radiology devices to specific sizes and shapes and provide customized interventional radiology treatments to their patients, according to a study presented Monday at the Society of International Radiology’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Atlanta.